Amersham On The Hill, Sycamore Road c.1960

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Caption for Amersham On The Hill, Sycamore Road C1955

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner. Hewitts, the Free Church of 1913 and the hall beyond were demolished in 1963 and replaced by the tawdry flat-roofed three-storey Sycamore House flats, offices and shops. The large many-chimneyed neo-Georgian buildings on the right, Chiltern Parade, were built in 1936 by Sainsbury's who occupied the centre shop. Nearer the camera is the Regent Cinema of 1928, closed in 1962 and tragically demolished and replaced by a frozen food shop.

Memories of Amersham on the Hill

I can remember walking along Sycamore Road with my mother. It seemed to me that the siren on the corner always sounded when we walked past the Regent Cinema. It was the old air-raid siren, but, by this time, it was used to call out the fire brigade. I can recall walking underneath the two trees in this picture. When they were finally felled, they were found to be rotten to the core.
The church and the small tin hall were demolished, I believe. There is a modern church on this same site today. The Regent is a supermarket. My aunties were cinema usherettes.

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